Towards the best method of cross cultural training for IT engineering graduates from eastern Indonesia region: Ready to be global engineers

Indonesian IT engineering graduates are nowadays expected to work in multicultural work team. Generally, Indonesian IT engineering students are only focused on their technical skill. In fact, they need a balance of technical and non-technical cross cultural skill. To conduct cross cultural training in order to prepare them to be ready on international assignments, the best methods need to be selected concerned to some factors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the best and applicable cross cultural training methods to be given for Eastern Indonesian IT engineering graduates. This study reports part of the results of a web-based survey of Indonesian expatriate engineers addressing their knowledge, experience and perceptions of working in multicultural working team. The output of this paper is a recommendation of the best cross cultural training methods for Eastern Indonesian IT engineering graduates as their additional valuable skill to be ready in international employment.

I. Introduction

Indonesian IT engineering graduates are nowadays expected to work in multicultural work team. Employments are not only in Indonesia but also international job offers. other than that, located in Indonesia were not impossible for them to be involved in international cooperation and collaboration in engineering industry. By nature, engineering industries employed engineers from diverse cultural background with regard of their expertise in the engineering field itself.